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Book SynopsisThea Buckley is a Research Assistant at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Sangeeta Datta is a writer, director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator, India/UK. She is Director of Baithak, a non-profits arts company, and Stormglass Productions.
Rosa García-Periago is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements A Note on References
Introduction: Thea Buckley, Mark Thornton Burnett, Sangeeta Datta and Rosa García-Periago
Chapter One: Poonam Trivedi (University of Delhi), ‘The “woman’s part”: Recovering the Contribution of Women to the Circulation of Shakespeare in India’
Chapter Two: Paromita Chakravarti (Jadavpur University), ‘Framing Femininities: Desdemona and Indian Modernities’
Chapter Three: Priyanka Basu (King's College, London, UK) and Arani Ilankuberan (British Library), ‘Indian Shakespeares in the British Library Collections: Translation, Indigeneity and Representation’
Chapter Four: Thea Buckley (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Women Translating Shakespeare in South India:
Hemanta Katha, or
The Winter’s Tale’
Chapter Five: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast) and Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University), ‘“I dare do all that may become a man”: Martial Desires and Women as Warriors in
Veeram, a Film Adaptation of
Macbeth’
Chapter Six: Taarini Mookherjee (Columbia University), ‘“You should be women”: Bengali Femininity and the Supernatural in Adaptations of
Macbeth’
Chapter Seven: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College), ‘
Romeo and Juliet Meets Rural India:
Sairat and the Representation of Women’
Chapter Eight: Jennifer T. Birkett (Notre Dame University), ‘Dy(e)ing Hands: The Hennaed Female Agent in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Tragedies’
Chapter Nine: Rosa García-Periago (University of Murcia), ‘Embattled Bodies: Women, Land and Contemporary Politics in
Arshinagar, a Film Adaptation of
Romeo and Juliet’
Chapter Ten: Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Where the Wild Things are: Shifting Identities in
Noblemen, a Film Adaptation of
The Merchant of Venice’
Chapter Eleven: N. P. Ashley (St Stephen’s College, Delhi), ‘Women Punctuating Shakespeare: Campus Theatrical Experiment, the Shakespeare Society and the Insider/Outsider Dialectic’
Chapter Twelve: Bornila Chatterjee (filmmaker), Sangeeta Datta (filmmaker), Annette Leday (Annette Leday/Keli Company), Sreedevi Nair (NSS College for Women), Preti Taneja (University of Newcastle), ‘Adapting Shakespeare: Directors and Practitioners in Conversation’
Appendix: Priyanka Basu (King's College, London) and Arani Ilankuberan (British Library), ‘A Selection of Shakespeare Translations/Adaptations from the British Library North Indian Languages Collection’
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